Slender, few-leaved annual, culms erect, to 120 cm high. At least the lower leaves softly hairy; sheath often with decurved hairs; blade flat, to 25 cm long and 6 mm wide; ligule glabrous, truncate, c. 1 mm long. Inflorescence a loose, narrowly ovate panicle, to 25 cm long, pedicels mostly longer than spikelets. Spikelets plumpish, 4–8-flowered, narrow-lanceolate, 12–20 mm long (excluding awns), glabrous; lower glume 3-nerved, 5–7 mm long, upper glume 5-nerved, 6–9 mm long; lemma 8.5–11.5 mm long, (excluding the awn), membranous, acute, entire or (usually) with a notch c. 0.5 mm deep; awn erect, 3–10 mm long, inserted at the base of the notch. Flowers late spring-summer.
GipP, Gold, MonT. Known in Victoria by a 1970 collection near Gelantipy and three pre 1900 collections of uncertain provenance labelled 'Hawkesdale', 'Loddon' and 'Malmsbury'. Not known elsewhere in Australia.
Source:
Walsh, N.G. (1994). Poaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 2, Ferns and Allied Plants, Conifers and Monocotyledons, pp. 356–627. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
